[mythtv-users] Third Attempt At Installing MythTV
Drew Tomlinson
drew at mykitchentable.net
Wed May 4 17:56:32 UTC 2005
On 5/3/2005 5:15 PM Howard Cokl wrote:
>--- Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm trying to build a MythTV box. I've been using
>>FreeBSD for around 4
>>years but I have no experience with Linux. So my
>>first attempt was to
>>build Myth on FreeBSD but there were lots of
>>problems and eventually I
>>gave up. Since MythTV was written for Linux I
>>thought I might have an
>>easier time just using Linux.
>>
>>I started with Knoppmyth but couldn't get the CD to
>>boot on my system.
>>Lurking here and seeing the success others were
>>having with Fedora and
>>Jarod Wilson's guide prompted me to give that a try.
>> But unfortunately,
>>I have a Promise 150 SATA controller in my system.
>>Attached to this
>>card is a PATA (regular IDE) drive. However the
>>sata_promise driver
>>doesn't support the PATA interface on this card.
>>Only the SATA
>>interfaces.
>>
>>Googling suggested that to get this support, I
>>needed to patch the
>>sources with libata-devel and rebuild my own kernel.
>> Lot's of googling
>>later and I've built and installed a custom kernel.
>>Seems to boot fine
>>and the PATA drive is now recognized! :) But now,
>>other packaged
>>modules such as the nvidia and ivtv drivers in Jarod
>>Wilson's guide
>>don't work. :( I suspect this is because they
>>were packaged for the
>>default kernel and not the custom one I built?
>>
>>It appears I need to learn a whole lot more about
>>Linux and how to build
>>what I need from source. Am I on the right track?
>>Can anyone suggest
>>some good newbie guides to this stuff? I find
>>snippets googling but
>>have been unable to turn up any complete guides.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Drew
>>
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>nvidia and ivtv are very easy, nvidia just download
>the version you want (probably 7174) so wget
>ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
>and then as root sh
>./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
>It'll do everything for you, build and install the
>kernel module and the xorg driver/libs.
>For ivtv just download what you need, I have a old
>freestyle so I would use wget
>http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.2/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz
>tar xzf ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz; cd
>ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver; make; make install; cd
>../utils; make make install
>Hope this make sense, trying to get the kids ready for
>bed.
>I had to create some devices in /etc/udev/devices for
>the nvidia stuff and had to set up an file to load
>modules before mythbackend starts, basically modprobe
>ivtv
>
>
Thanks Howard! I've been able to compile these parts and get them
running. However I still don't understand if I'm going to be able to
use rpms that are generally available or if I will need to compile code
for everything I want to run.
Thanks,
Drew
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